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The Eastman School of Music hosts the 40th International Viola Congress from May 30 to June 3, featuring hundreds of violists, world premieres, and performances by renowned artists including Wolfram Christ, Kim Kashkashian, Paul Neubauer, Atar Arad, and others. The event includes more than 40 discussions, lectures, and master classes and will feature a live broadcast of an evening concerto by WXXI 91.5 FM.
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International Entertainment News reports that the New York-based auction house Tarisio will exhibit the ‘Baron von der Leyen’ Stradivarius (c. 1705) in San Francisco ahead of an online instrument auction. Bidding for the violin will begin at $2 million, and a video of the instrument is linked.
benningviolins.com
Eric Benning's latest Stradivarius model violin is now available in New York, at the studio of Julie Reed. Reed Yeboah Fine Violins, LLC lists the New York address and contact information for inquiries about availability.
benningviolins.com
Gahyun Cho, playing a Tomaso Balestrieri-model violin crafted by Los Angeles maker Eric Benning, reached the finals in the Berlin International Max Rostal Competition for viola and violin.
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Michael Garcia, a Los Angeles-based violinist, purchased Eric Benning's first violin, the instrument known as the ex Raymond Wurfl. The article notes Garcia studied with Sidney Szathmary and includes Garcia's performances with the Symphony of the Verdugos, the West Valley Symphony, and the Los Angeles folk group The Storytellers; it also describes Eric Benning as a violin maker active in Los Angeles.
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Eric Benning crafted a Stradivarius-model cello is completed and available for examination and trial at J & A Beare Fine Violins in New York. The instrument has been created by Los Angeles violin-maker Eric Benning and is part of Beare Violins' promotion in NY. The page notes that the Beare studio in NY can be contacted to try the cello in person.
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The article describes a public exhibition in San Francisco of a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin titled the ‘Baron von der Leyen’ circa 1705, organized by Tarisio. Bidding for the instrument starts at $2 million, with a related video linked and a forthcoming online auction at tarisio.com.
standard.co.uk
Andre Paine reports for the Evening Standard that a £66,000 250-year-old Carcassi cello, dating to 1752, was stolen from a north London home. The theft involved multiple instruments valued at almost £100,000, with the Carcassi associated with the Allegri Quartet. Pal Banda and Susie Meszaros, both professional musicians, discovered the loss upon returning from a performance, and more instruments including a 14,000-pound cello and Meszaros's 1759 viola were taken.
npr.org
The NPR piece discusses Amnon Weinstein, a violin maker in Israel, who has spent more than two decades assembling the Violins of Hope collection, instruments used by Jews during the Holocaust. The collection will be displayed in the United States for the first time and featured in a series of concerts.
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Aimee Mitchell reports for ABC Tropical North about sixteen-year-old Isaiah Howell retracing his Anzac relative Ernest Pilcher's World War I footsteps after learning about a violin carved from a chocolate box made by Ernest in the trenches of Gallipoli.
benningviolins.com
Cellist Jeffrey Ho of Santa Monica is the latest owner of a cello crafted by Los Angeles violinmaker Eric Benning. The instrument, a Stradivarius model, was recently completed by Eric Benning and will be taken by Ho to the Heifetz International Music Institute in Staunton, Virginia this summer.